Word: defiantly
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...while Wright is a theologian, a teacher and a pastor, he is ultimately a performer. In front of a cheering crowd of supporters that included a whistling Cornel West, he gave into temptation and lustily went after his critics. As soon as the questions began, Wright transformed into a defiant, derisive figure, snapping one-liners at the unfortunate moderator tasked with reading the questions and stepping back with a grin on his face after each one, clearly enjoying himself...
...Chinese have been quick to perceive and exploit France's vulnerabilities. The demonstrations against the Olympic torch were as spectacular in London and San Francisco as they were in Paris. Yet the Chinese have singled out France as the ideal place to post their defiant message to the world. "You have to respect us because we are a big player now!" China seems to say. "We have become stronger as you became weaker; you need the oxygen of our huge markets and the support of our financial institutions...
...announced its decision to set up a Jewish state; a fiercely beautiful Israeli woman soldier throwing a grenade; poor Moroccan migrants as they glimpse Israel from a ship's deck; a gaunt refugee bringing home live chickens for the Sabbath meal; David Ben-Gurion looking like a defiant Moses. Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon - Rubinger photographed them all in unguarded moments, stripped of the trappings of high office. He catches Meir worrying about a pot on the stove; Menachem Begin on an airplane, bending over to help his wife put on her shoe; the great warrior Dayan...
Shakespeare Company's (RSC) production of Henry VI. During its run, actors David Oyelowo and Chuk Iwuji - both of African origin - have been superb Kings, inhabiting the past and the present, and conveying through old conflicts the anguish of the strife now ravaging African nations, as well as the defiant optimism that may yet save them...
...lost time by writing five books from 1972 to 1999, garnering a devoted readership. Perhaps her most widely read work, Sweetsir, published in 1981, explored the tortured life of a woman regularly beaten by her husband, until she finally, lethally retaliates. Though her characters spanned a broad spectrum from defiant youth to wry old age, throughout her novels the former editor for The Nation was consistently devoted to her theme: the lives and struggles of women...